Panels appearing black in Lightroom | macOS

Issue

The panels at the top, bottom, left, and right in the Lightroom user interface become 'black' intermittently when you perform actions such as switching between Lightroom modules, or minimizing and maximizing the Lightroom window.

Issue: Panels appearing black in Lightroom

Product versions affected

Lightroom CC 2015.8/Lightroom 6.8 and earlier

Operating system

macOS 10.12 (Sierra), Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)

Note:

The Lightroom team has made attempts to resolve this issue to a large extent, reduce its occurrences, and recover from it automatically in case one may still hit this issue. If you're running Lightroom on older Mac OS X 10.11 version, the issue may still appear at times. Try out the latest version of Lightroom and let us know your feedback.